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Speaker 1: David Ecklund is back for some farm chats. Morning morning,

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Speaker 1: you get some snow at yours. Yesterday we did it

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Speaker 1: the sweet yeah, and then the frost this morning. What's

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Speaker 1: going on? I thought we were past this.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's spring, isn't it. I've had I've had a

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Speaker 2: potest night at this time of year, so I'm glad

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Speaker 2: it was only an Hyeah.

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Speaker 1: We had the Deputy Prime Minister in town last week

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Speaker 1: and we were both lucky enough to catch up with him.

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Speaker 1: Peter Mack pointed out that I've still got David Seaboll's

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Speaker 1: half eaten pie sitting in the studio, Sally fossilizing. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking maybe if I leave it long enough, it might

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Speaker 1: be worth something. But anyway, I'm sure that you had

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Speaker 1: far more pressing things to put to them than spicy pies.

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Speaker 1: What'd you talk about?

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Speaker 2: Regional counsel and consenting processes and just trying to get

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Speaker 2: the get the message across that it's not working at

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Speaker 2: the moment, and there's a lot of people battling, battling

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Speaker 2: to get reasonable, reasonable process. So that was that was

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Speaker 2: the name of the convert game of the conversation was

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Speaker 2: to try and get some of that narted down and

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Speaker 2: get some change it on.

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Speaker 1: The regional council. We must have been listening to yourself

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Speaker 1: and David Clark, he's recently shared his struggles with e

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Speaker 1: Can David Seymour saying it feels a bit like civil

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Speaker 1: war out there. What's your take? Do we even need

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Speaker 1: e Can?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a big question, isn't it sull of change?

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Speaker 2: And it'll be a massive structural change similar to what

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Speaker 2: we went through the early ninety eighties when we're from

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Speaker 2: catching boards to district regional council and the amalgamation of

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Speaker 2: the different councilors and to form the district council. So

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Speaker 2: it does need to be changed because there is a

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Speaker 2: bottlenet at the moment and it's through the to just

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Speaker 2: at the moment. So we do need to try and

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Speaker 2: get what a forward it's going to benefit one the community,

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Speaker 2: the environment and enable development to have him as well.

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Speaker 1: On the flip side, pretty good times to be a farmer,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're dairying fon terror releasing the final payout

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Speaker 1: well over ten bucks for the season that's just been

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Speaker 1: in metrics looking good, so the lot of a.

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Speaker 2: Strong it's great for mccannery and the community as a whole.

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Speaker 2: You know, we just needed to see a good uptick

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Speaker 2: in the arable side of things and then then then

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Speaker 2: everyone would be pretty pumped up in the cannery. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're very fortunate to have the breadth of our farming

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Speaker 2: industries that we have in this district. We're not just

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Speaker 2: a one trick pony. So yeah, we're pretty Luckiness or

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Speaker 2: drives off that water, doesn't it. So we've got the

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Speaker 2: National Party coming in on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: We'll do you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a.

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Speaker 1: First coming to visit. Who's coming?

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Speaker 2: Uh, Well, Minister of Ryan, Penny Simmons and a few

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Speaker 2: of the rural nats.

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Speaker 1: So do you think Penny Simmons would write a favorable

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Speaker 1: letter to e can on your behalf too?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know that she's she is the minister from

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Speaker 2: Brahman And that was the important conversation last week was

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Speaker 2: that we had Andrew Hoguard here as well, and he's

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Speaker 2: part of the environment in Deftum striate environments, so that

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Speaker 2: there were two key players to have these conversations with.

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Speaker 2: So it's been really really good that they have all

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Speaker 2: coming down to have this conversation, specially with the RMA

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Speaker 2: up to change. We just want to make sure the

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Speaker 2: transition phases is good for everyone and that we've be

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Speaker 2: done something that's going to be better than what we've got

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Speaker 2: at the moment.